Sadako Sawamura Movies

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

1956 Japanese movie

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Shinya Ban (Masao Wakahara) returns from the south and is deeply disappointed when he learns that his mutual friend Yuriko (Mieko Takamine) is...

The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of the 1939 movie

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Two brothers move to their grandfather's house after their father is drafted and play war games with their new classmates.

During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka